Out on the French Countryside
One of the main issues that Nikola and I have encountered since the beginning of our relationship has been the question of where we will live. Originally this was more of a non-question as he…
Tag: marriage
Fight and Trust
Trust. Dedication. These are things that I thought that I understood over the years, and of course I understood bits and pieces, but now… Wowsa! Now I feel like I have the whole thing. Nikola…
Ghosts of Boyfriends Past
“Have you ever stared in the mirror for so long that your face stopped making sense? It just become a bunch of shapes. Just shapes. Not good or bad.” — Noelle, The Truth About Cats…
Married Life
They say that things change when you get married, but they don’t really say how. Too often the depiction of marriage centers on the cold feet of the wedding day. I will admit, that standing…
A Tale of Two Worlds
Today I went to the American embassy in Sofia to get my paperwork processed in order to be legally able to marry in Bulgaria. When we drove up across the building and I saw the…
Birth Control Thoughts
Every night around eight, for the past three weeks, I began to cower. I consider myself a strong woman, and this cowardice frustrated me. At 8:20 I bravely swallowed the pill. Some nights were good…
Family is Family
I am not particularly close to my blood relatives. The distance has become so ingrained and so natural that I was actually, honestly suprised when my parents very easily said that they would fly across…
The time has come… part III- jealousy and rings
One ring to rule them all. What is a ring? In my paper on the symbolism of modern weddings I am briefly examining the modern abstraction of the ring. I take the ring off my…
Continue Reading The time has come… part III- jealousy and rings
In defense of marriage…
I have long been the type of girl who thought that she was never going to get married. No, not one of those desperate, forever-alone girls stuck on self-pity and thirsting for a man, but…